LOGGING IN THE DOUGLAS FIR REGION. 
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another. There is no disagreement, however, as to what in a general 
way constitutes a proper method, since all agree that it should be 
adapted to the conditions; that it should facilitate and not delay 
yarding: and that it should do the work at a minimum cost. 
PARBUCKLE METHOD. 
This method, being slow, was soon super- 
FlG 
Common type of deck landing. 
Logging jacks in connection with skids or landings were first used 
to load logs in the region, 
seded by the parbuckle 
method, which resembles 
the cross-haul method of 
the East, The parbuckle 
method is still extensive- 
ly used in the Grays Har- 
bor country. One hun- 
dred thousand feet of 
timber per day can be 
loaded satisfactorily with 
it where the logs average 
2 or 3 feet in diameter 
and 40 feet in length. It 
requires a more elaborate 
and costly landing than 
other loading methods. 
A gin pole is erected on the side of the track opposite to the land- 
ing, to which a single sheave loading block is attached about 30 
feet from the ground. The loading line, leading from the drum that 
furnishes the power, passes through the loading block, then around 
the logs to be loaded, and thence over the car to the base of the gin 
pole where it is hooked. When the power is exerted on the line the 
log is rolled from the landing to the car. 
SINGLE GIN-POLE METHOD. 
In many cases the loading rig consists of a single gin pole about 
60 feet in height, a main loading line, crotch lines, and hooks, tongs, 
or slings, the power being furnished by a loading drum on the roacl- 
ing or yarding engine or by the main drum of a separate loading 
engine (fig. 60). The gin pole is erected on the side of the track 
opposite the landing and just far enough from the track to 
permit the passage of cars, and with the top, or the part to which 
the rigging is hung, over the center of the track. A 1-inch main load- 
ing line, leading from the engine, passes through a 14 by 2 inch 
corner block at the top of the gin pole, and then down to the log. 
Two lines, called crotch lines, from 25 to 30 feet in length, depending 
on the length of the logs and whether loading* hooks or tongs are 
